AdeY is a multidisciplinary visual artist dancing between photography and performance.

With a background in performance, choreography and contemporary dance, AdeY’s photographic works study subjects such as the human body's balance, strength and physics. Here they photograph and portray the body in its purest form - bare, undressed and naked. The work seeks to create a non-sexualised and open-minded representation of humankind, which is based on a dream of acceptance.

Their choreographic works are first and foremost about people. Interested in the stories that bring a particular dancer to where they are in time and space, they challenge the social norm in ways that provokes audiences to both confirm and question their own beliefs. Adey’s works are politically motivated by cultural and social events that are occurring throughout the world; exploring how society defines who we are and how we are perceived.

A focus and attention to people’s right to differences drives the Swedish/British artist’s images, and here it is especially the differences that are about physics, gender, race and sexuality.

With a humorous and experimental approach, they seek to highlight our vulnerability, loneliness, and strengths, whilst capturing those little moments of social oppression, isolation, anxiety, and depression that appear to play a central role in the human condition. In practice, it is in many ways the perception of the body that is being challenged by the artist, based on their own background and experience of the human body, but it is also to a greater extent the perception of the viewer and the outside world, which is central to their artistic voice.

AdeY is an internationally renowned artist represented by The Little Black Gallery, London & Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Norway.  Their photographic works have been exhibited at several high profile photo exhibitions, art fairs and photo festivals including Paris Photo, Photo London & Unseen Amsterdam amongst others. AdeY’s award winning choreographic works have been toured extensively throughout the world including Australia, UK, USA, South Korea, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Russia and Finland.

Nea is a maker and performer working within the fields of contemporary dance, performance, installation art, theater and technology. She is educated at Balettakademien Stockholm as well as through courses in choreography, philosophy and Klein technique at Stockholm University of the Arts, and computer programming at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Nea’s practice revolves around fantasy and meaning-making in the digital and digitized age, combining choreography, participation, visual arts and new media. Her works have been shown around Sweden at venues such as Tekniska Muséet, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, iMKonsthall, Inter Arts Center, PlayLab, DansPlats Skog, SITE and through Riksteatern. She has also created work specifically for the web. Examples of recent pieces include “celestial bodies” (2024), an interactive VR experience, “desktop.dreams” (2023), a live-streamed computer desktop performance, “Mobilized – An essay pretending to be a game” (2023), a participatory smartphone based performance, and “OTHER” (2022), an interactive computer-duet. From 2022-2024 she was an incubator artist at SITE Sweden production house.

As a dancer, Nea has performed in Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Tunisia, Denmark and Finland, and collaborated with artists such as Robin Jonsson, Adèle Essle Zeiss, Claire Parsons Co, Uncover Choreography, Iraqi Bodies, Ron Howell and Valencia James.

Moa Matilda Sahlin (born 1974 in Gävle, Sweden) reactivates postmodern/contemporary practice theories through a critical exercise of queer femmes' development, in her own body and societal corporeality. Her dance classes and choreographic practice, insist on the central role of art in society. She repeatedly offers up the hopeful serpentine paths towards the ongoing dream of Utopia.

MOA kompani, is a proposal to work through choreographic methods in projects, networks, choreographies and conversations. Community centered organizations modells started with Dansbyrån 2006-2018 and the dance bar was; Funmi Adewole, Inta Balode, Kate Elswit, Åsa Holtz, Rani Nair, Jannine Rivel, Petra Kuppers, Steinunn Ketlisdottir and others are and have been influential colleagues. With its new perspectives, formal experiments and bodily updates. The choreography "Curious on the border" was made in her master's degree in choreography in 2005 London, Laban, and was part of the dance biennial in Gothenburg in 2006.

MOA kompani do since the one new choreography per year.

Nowadays, MOA kompani works both locally with institutions; studio Skaftarp in Värnamo, Swedish Ballet School, Gothenburg Culture School, Gothenburg City Theatre, to Nordic / Baltic independent choreography projects such as Writing Movement 2.0, EXPRESSIONS, Danske Dansehistorier 2018. "The extended hand gesture" premiered in 2016. A group of eight dancers with expertise in a wide range of performative methods become part of the MOA company, synchronizing solidarity movements with newly composed music. It is in that context and on these stage spaces that create post-contemporary that the new choreography "Momentum-making kin with butterflies" developed and tours 2018-2022. Then a solo “En hink fred '' developed into a pratice with 10 dancers called 100 buckets of peace, working with the solution to climate change= less carbon footprints and firmer green handshakes in Värnamo municipality, Sweden. This work is durational 2023-2033 and also invites book readings and conversations.

Robert Ssempijja is a Ugandan contemporary artist and dance researcher based in Gothenburg. He is forging a career in both formal and informal settings. Ssempijjas practice is marked by both the post-colonial era and decolonization. Showcasing work in both traditional and non-traditional spaces, he reflects a commitment to challenging conventional norms and he is ready to embrace diverse perspectives.

Ssempijja’s work consists of research projects that manifest in texts, dance films, installations and performances. He seeks to cultivate "a regenerative art practice" that transcends exploitative relationships, bridging the distorted past with the digital present. He is interested in trying out new ways to create knowledge, exploring fresh methods for organizing information and thinking up innovative structures.

My pronouns are he/him/they. I was born in Laos, Vientiane, and grew up in London, Uk. I came to the UK as a child refugee with my family, and this has always had a profound impact on me.

My contemporary dance, theatre and social comment based performances are focussed on creating discussion and debate around identity and what this could mean in relation to an ever changing world. I have a huge interest in exploring ‘presence’ as a practice for performance, and philosophy in everyday life.

In 2017 I was selected for Dance net Sweden’s co-production, for a work called Ursäkta oss, and this was a personal landmark for me in establishing myself in the cultural area of Sweden. Saying that I think I struggle as much as any independent creative, both loving and hating this way of life, and feel openness, generosity and community are the keys for surviving the art life and the collective struggle for any minority voice to be heard. My latest project is ’Statues or To-Stand’ co-directed with Majula Drammeh, co-created with Nya Rörelsen members.

Additionally I have made performative concepts for galleries including installations ‘Permission to grieve’ and ‘An exercise in learning Swedish’. And have been a member of Nya Rörelsen since 2009.

Destiny af Kleen is a choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of DansPlats Skog in Gävleborg County. Her works and projects stem from a deep commitment to social care and a genuine interest in her audience. Rooted in activism and political engagement, Destiny's approach emphasizes energizing and progressive processes that prioritize collective and public participation. Inspired by the principles of "everyone can" and open source, she fosters an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome. Through her projects, Destiny aims to present alternative visions of places and create new realities. @dansplatsskog www.yodestiny.com